When Dave Schmitt and Kyle Even formed Breathe Carolina in 2007, they didn’t anticipate that their just for fun project would explode into an internationally sought-after band within just a couple of years.
The story of Breathe Carolina is a modern day music fairytale, about two friends who recorded tracks on Mac program GarageBand at home in Denver, CO, put them on to MySpace and rapidly gained a huge online following. Their hobby transformed into a career, and launched the duo into stardom. We got started just by hanging out, reflects Kyle. We sat in a room and threw ideas back and forth, and had to take trips to the library to talk to people online because we didn’t have internet at our house. We honestly weren’t expecting anything, we just made some songs and people started hitting us up about them.
After signing with Fearless Records in 2009, their album Hello Fascination took their music to a bigger, brighter and more blistering dimension. The album debuted at #43 on the Billboard Top 200 and #2 on the Electronic Chart, going on to sell over 60,000. The title track Hello Fascination was featured on MTVs The City and received placement on NBCs Sunday Night Football. It also became the featured track on NBCs The Jay Leno Show promos.
